We have all done it. Spilt that substance on the computer, or dropped your nice new video card and destroyed it, or have just not thought about something and deleted that critical file, formatted that drive, etc. Anyone else have some funny bad experiences?

I once dropped a full glass of coke, on my computer when it was running, on the power supply! Needless to say i did quite the magnificient dive to the wall to unplug it. I washed every part, switched the power supply with an extra I had, and the computer worked fine.

Also I just got a fine g15 gaming keyboard, spilt coffee on it, cleaned it, and it works great still. Ive got sweet good bad luck...

Then there was the time I told windows to do a system restore on my dual boot fiesty setup. Instead it formatted the drive, I had clicked the wrong option.

This wasn't my experience but it was funny...

One of my co-workers had a potted plant on top of his CRT, and decided that it was a good idea to water it while it was still sitting there. Apparently monitors do not like to be watered...

Some years ago, I accidentally placed a folder at the root of my linux environment. I can't remember what it was, or anything..but I do remember that I just wanted to delete it.

It started with an 'e'. And when TAB-ing, it did not show up first.../etc did...you figure out the rest ^^

I dropped like a full glass of lemonade in my keyboard. I just put in the dishwasher. Same with my cell phone, except I dropped my cell in a glass of coke.

Years ago I tried to eat a bowl of cereal at my desk. But when I went to pour the milk, I spilled all over the keyboard. It continued to function though, after I cleaned it off. It was an older pc, so I didn't get too mad at myself.

I was using Windows 95 back then, and didn't know too much about computers. I wasn't even using a firewall, and ended up with a bunch of malware.

Thats is my experience.

i use the zsh (not all to long) and had a bunch of error.404.php files in my home, from some wget experimenting i did...

so i went in there, typed rm erro<tab>
now it like gave me a list with error.php, error.php.1 ...

i picked the first and hit enter, and then added a star to get em all...

too bad that the zsh added a space inbetween...

makes you appriciate rm asking on directories and read-only files (never hit ctrl+c so fast)

well, had a complete /home backup from a short while back, since i wanted to remake the pc..., everything was sound and save (exept that the guis couldnt open a 18gb tar archive, so i had to unzip the whole thing into tmp...

I've got a few. Way back when I still used Windows I tried to swap the shell32.dll with a custom one with different icons in it, however it didn't go right and I couldn't boot the computer. Got it fixed after a little fooling around.

Just the other day I was fooling around with my xorg.conf file after I installed the Nvidia driver(I'm very familiar with this file and know my way around it. I could probably edit it with my eyes close, which might be what happened) and after I rebooted X kept failing. I rebooted a few times and it still wasn't working. I went through my xorg.conf file many times and I couldn't see anything wrong with it. After about 20 minuets of messing with it, I saw it. Under the Device section in one of the Options that I added, I had spelled Option wrong. Otpion
I was so embarrassed

A friend of my mothers did that with her television... after buying a new TV, she replaced the potplant with a plastic one... and then forgot it was fake and watered it, frying the new TV as well.

I haven't done anything very technical - I did upgrade to the latest version of Kubuntu without checking the dialup support, and then had to downgrade again when I couldn't get it going, leaving me with over 400mb of updates to do

'If it ain't broke' I guess, lol.

I work from home and I had just completed an application for a client. I saved it on my USB key and decided to clean up the folder and delete all the backups of the file just leaving the current finished file or so I thought. Got in to the client to discover the file I had was 4 weeks old.
Ran home to find the file on my computer was also 4 weeks old. I had saved the wrong file. Had to do a retrieve from the hard drive and luckily I found a file that was only a couple of days old. Didn't much fancy redoing 4 weeks work. It was embarrassing having to tell the client though. I'm supposed to be a professional

I once installed windows...

I had two partitions on my harddrive---one running current stable ubuntu and one running testing. But I wanted my home directory to be consistent between them so I created a /home partition, copied the relevent files, and I even updated fstab. But I forgot to update grub. So I had a lovely working system that was configured like I wanted but I couldn't boot it (and I had been so proud of myself for figuring out how to create and populate a new partition). I didn't have a live cd with me, and I couldn't (of course) make one since I couldn't boot my computer. Luckily, my friend came to the rescue by making a boot disk for me.

I have the case off my computer, so it's open.
One day I decided to touch the heat sync on my new geforce fx after it had been on for.. 3-4 hours.
Good thing the human body developed reflexes.

Is anyone able to work inside a PC without shredding the backs of his/her hand? Or am I just a dork? The questions are related - do not attempt to answer them separately!

yes, i just bult a computer without scratching my hands

Guess I am a dork. ;-) It never fails though.

What kinda rig did you build?

Q6600
p5n32-E sli
AK-965 INTEL COOLER
XFX GeForce 7600GS 256Mb PCI-E Graphics Card
fado atx tower
1 gig ram

ubuntu feisty

Enjoy (with your non-bloody hands).

i can work inside a PC without losing blood

I guess I'll have to add "dork" to my tagline when I earn permission to change it. Thanks for confirming my disgrace.

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